Swiss height data & publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Koepke, Nikola; Floris, Joël; Pfister, Christian; Rühli, Frank J; Staub, Kaspar (2018). Ladies First: female and male adult height in Switzerland, 1770-1930. Economics and Human Biology, 29:76-87.
• Myburgh, Jolandie; Staub, Kaspar; Rühli, Frank J; Smith, J R; Steyn, M (2017). Secular trends in stature of late 20 th century white South Africans and two European populations. HOMO Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 68(6):433-439.
• Panczak, Radoslaw; Moser, André; Held, Leonhard; Jones, Philip A; Rühli, Frank J; Staub, Kaspar (2017). A tall order: small area mapping and modelling of adult height among Swiss male conscripts. Economics and Human Biology:1-10.
• Lehmann, Andreas; Floris, Joël; Woitek, Ulrich; Rühli, Frank J; Staub, Kaspar (2017). Temporal trends, regional variation and socio-economic differences in height, BMI and body proportions among German conscripts, 1956-2010. Public Health Nutrition, 20(3):391-403.
• Rohrmann, Sabine; Haile, Sarah R; Staub, Kaspar; Bopp, Matthias; Fäh, David (2017). Body height and mortality - mortality follow-up of four Swiss surveys. Preventive Medicine, 101:67-71.
• Staub, Kaspar; Bender, Nicole; Floris, Joël; Pfister, Christian; Rühli, Frank J (2016). From undernutrition to overnutrition: the evolution of overweight and obesity among young men in Switzerland since the 19th century. Obesity Facts, 9(4):259-272.
• Bentham, James; Rühli, Frank J; Staub, Kaspar; Faeh, David; Gutzwiller, Felix; Ezzati, Majid; NCD-RisC Group (2016). A century of trends in adult human height. eLife, 5:e13410.
• Habicht, Michael E; Henneberg, Maciej; Öhrström, Lena Maria; Staub, Kaspar; Rühli, Frank J (2015). Body height of mummified pharaohs supports historical suggestions of sibling marriages. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 157(3):519-525.
• Staub, Kaspar; Floris, Joël; Woitek, Ulrich; Rühli, Frank (2014). From left-skewness to symmetry: how body-height distribution among Swiss conscripts has changed shape since the late 19th century. Annals of Human Biology:1-8.
• Hermanussen, Michael; Alt, Christoph; Staub, Kaspar; Assmann, Christian; Groth, Detlef (2014). The impact of physical connectedness on body height in Swiss conscripts. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 71(4):313-327.
• Staub, Kaspar; Rühli, Frank J (2013). From growth in height to growth in breadth: The changing body shape of Swiss conscripts since the late 19th century and possible endocrine explanations. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 188(1):9-15.
• Staub, Kaspar; Woitek, Ulrich; Pfister, Christian; Rühli, Frank J (2012). Überblick über zehn Jahre historisch-anthropometrische Forschung in der Schweiz: Säkularer Trend, soziale und regionale Unterschiede in der mittleren Körperhöhe und -form seit Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bulletin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, 18(2):37-50.
• Schoch, T; Staub, Kaspar; Pfister, Christian (2012). Social inequality and the biological standard of living: An anthropometric analysis of Swiss conscription data, 1875-1950. Economics & Human Biology, 10(2):154-173.
• Staub, Kaspar; Rühli, Frank J; Bogin, Barry; Woitek, Ulrich; Pfister, Christian (2011). Edouard Mallet's early and almost forgotten study of the average height of Genevan conscripts in 1835. Economics & Human Biology, 9(4):438-442.
• Staub, Kaspar (2011). Grösser – und dicker. Körperhöhe und Body Mass Index im Kanton Bern seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 73(4):3-39.
• Staub, Kaspar; Rühli, Frank J; Woitek, Ulrich; Pfister, Christian (2011). The average height of 18- and 19-year-old conscripts (N=458,322) in Switzerland from 1992 to 2009, and the secular height trend since 1878. Swiss Medical Weekly, 141:w13238.